13.15 - RULES AND FORMS -- FEES.
13.15 RULES AND FORMS -- FEES.
The farm mediation service shall recommend rules to the farm
assistance program coordinator. The coordinator shall adopt rules
pursuant to chapter 17A to set the compensation of mediators and to
implement this subchapter and chapters 654A, 654B, and 654C.
The rules shall provide for an hourly mediation fee not to exceed
fifty dollars for the borrower and one hundred dollars for the
creditor. The hourly mediation fee may be waived for any party
demonstrating financial hardship upon application to the farm
mediation service.
The compensation of a mediator shall be no more than twenty-five
dollars per hour, and all parties shall contribute an equal amount of
the cost.
The coordinator shall adopt voluntary mediation application and
mediation request forms. Section History: Recent Form
90 Acts, ch 1143, §5; 91 Acts, ch 267, §410; 95 Acts, ch 195, § 2